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Last week Prime Minister Baron Güchi Tanaka of the Seiyukai party obtained 221 seats. There appeared only one other party of comparable size, the Minseito, with 214. Definitely inferior are the 16 Independents, the 8 Laborites, the 4 Business Party deputies, and the 3 members of the Kakushin Club...
Thus imperially favored, General Tanaka became three times War Minister between 1918 and 1923. Two years later he was chosen leader of the Seiyukai party, and amid the national financial crisis of last spring he became Premier (TIME, May 2). All his life Baron Tanaka has had the honorable reputation of being a good fellow. His powerful constitution seems to make only a favorable reaction to quantities of the finer alcoholic beverages; and he is considered one of the most gentlemanly frequenters of geisha houses in Japan...
...entering politics he served as War Minister under Premier Takashi Kara (1918-1921), Premier Viscount Takahashi (1921-1922) and Premier Count Yamamoto (Aug. Dec. 1923). Then, in 1925, he assumed the party leadership of the Seiyukai...
...Chief opposition party, but in a minority compared to the united Kenseikai and Seiyukai parties which supported the last cabinet...
...some time M. Tokonami remained deaf, but recently he wavered, still later agreed to become Vice President of the Seiyukai Party. Baron Tanaka promptly seized upon the tax question to force the Government to end the coalition. This, as described above, was done with the result that Baron Tanaka has the Government at his mercy when the Diet meets next December...